Teresa Cole, LPCC

Teresa Cole is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) with 16 years of counseling experience in California. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, and addiction. Teresa also supports those coping with life changes, parenting concerns, and intimacy-related issues. She lists jealousy among her focus areas and helps clients talk through relationship and attachment worries.

Teresa uses approaches that emphasize understanding emotions and how they affect choices. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new behavior. Attachment-based ideas inform her work when relationship dynamics and abandonment concerns come up.

Her style is practical and collaborative. She offers clear psychoeducation and helps clients set realistic goals. Sessions often include skill practice, communication work, and steps to manage anxiety or cravings.

Teresa has extensive experience with trauma, grief, and disability-related stress. She also supports people facing career transitions, caregiver strain, chronic health challenges, and the complexities of blended families. Her background includes working with first responders and people navigating neurodiversity concerns such as Autism and Asperger Syndrome.

People who meet with Teresa can expect focused conversations and concrete tools to use between sessions. She encourages gradual change and builds on each person’s strengths. To begin, visitors should use the site’s matching process to connect and schedule a session.

Therapeutic approaches and online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without fighting them and then choose actions that match their values; it’s often useful for anxiety, stress, and navigating life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and building practical skills to change behavior, which can help with depression, anxiety, and coping strategies. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early attachment concerns may shape current reactions, making it useful for jealousy, intimacy, and commitment issues.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Teresa collaborates with each client to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences. She will discuss which approaches may be most useful and adapt the plan as progress is made.

Confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by reducing travel and allowing sessions during breaks or evenings. It also lets people connect with a licensed professional from different locations within the same state, and sessions can be used for focused skill-building, communication practice, and regular check-ins that support ongoing change.